Author Archives: Jon Awbrey

The Prime Movers of Disaster Capitalism

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

☠ Obscenely Rich Corporations (ORCs) ⇒ Corporate Owned Governments (COGs) ⇒ Mercantile Engineered Social Starvation (MESS) ⇒ Corporate Owned Biosphere Wasting Earth’s Bounty (COBWEB)

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Inquiry Live and Logic Live

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Prompted by observations I made over a long period of time about the problems of fragmentation and increasing insularity in web communities and inspired in part by discussions I had with Michel Bauwens of the Peer2Peer (P2P) Foundation, I started … Continue reading →

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Modus Dolens

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

A yet innominate mode of inference has become so frequent in certain quarters that the time has come to fashion a suitable name for it. The scheme of thought in question goes a bit like this: If A, then B. … Continue reading →

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What Peirce Preserves

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • On Peirce Preservation Cf: Inquiry List • What Peirce Preserves Looking back from this moment, I think I see things a little differently.  The critical question is whether our theoretical description of inquiry gives us a … Continue reading →

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❃ Blowin’ in the Wind ❃

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

❃ Blowin' in the Wind ❃

It was so windy today, 30 mph gusts at times, that I had to take a chair out on the deck and wait for moments when the tree held still for half a second.

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If the People are to Rule then the People must become Wise

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Our Enlightenment Forerunners had the insight to see the critical flaw in all historical failures at democratic government, to wit, or not — If the People are to Rule then the People must become Wise. The consequence is that equally … Continue reading →

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Paradisaical Logic and the After Math

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peter Cameron • Cultures, Tribes, or Just an Illusion? Re: Peirce List • (1) (2) (3) (4) Not too coincidentally with the mention of Peirce’s existential graphs, a tangent of discussion elsewhere brought to mind an old favorite passage … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • Relatives of Second Intention

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Selections from C.S. Peirce, “The Logic of Relatives”, CP 3.456–552 488.   The general method of graphical representation of propositions has now been given in all its essential elements, except, of course, that we have not, as yet, studied any truths … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • A Guess at the Riddle

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Selections from C.S. Peirce, “A Guess at the Riddle”, CP 1.354–416 359.   First and Second, Agent and Patient, Yes and No, are categories which enable us roughly to describe the facts of experience, and they satisfy the mind for a … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • The Reality of Thirdness

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Selections from C.S. Peirce, “Lowell Lectures of 1903”, CP 1.343–349 343.   We may say that the bulk of what is actually done consists of Secondness — or better, Secondness is the predominant character of what has been done.  The immediate … Continue reading →

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